title: [Radiation organizing pneumonia: report of one case].
abstract: We report a 64-years-old woman who underwent sparing mastectomy with adjuvant radiotherapy for breast cancer. One month after the end of radiotherapy, she presented with malaise, fever, fatigue, cough and migratory bilateral pulmonary infiltrates on serial radiological images. The microbiological studies of broncha alveolar lavage were negative. The patient under went a trans bronchial biopsy and the pathological diagnosis was compatible with an organizing pneumonia presumably associated with radiotherapy. Systemic steroid treatment was successful with rapid and complete resolution of clinical and radiographic manifestations.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile.
authors.forename: Arturo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Morales Soto
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Calvo De La Barra
authors.forename: Graça
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pinheiro De Carvalho
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: González Bombardiere
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Saldías Peñafiel
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery; D018549:Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D017564:Radiation Pneumonitis / Q000209:etiology*; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant / Q000009:adverse effects